Vera Forester

Born and raised in Basel; Vera Forester is an author. She received acting tuition in Zurich and studied German, English and Romance languages and literatures. She first worked as an actress, director and dramaturge, later as an author for radio, television and for newspapers and magazines. In 2001 her book “Lessing und Moses Mendelssohn. Geschichte einer Freundschaft” appeared, tracing the correspondence and the friendship between Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn; a revised edition followed in 2010. In 2016 came the novel “Im Jahr der Brandzeichen”. She has also published the book of stories “Loreley Rapid” as well as tales and audiobooks. Since 2005 she has been an editor of the internet portal theaterkompass.de. Five albums connect her with Cybele, all of them in the label’s audiobook series that joins word and music. For Katrin Dorn’s Tangogeschichten (2004) she directed the spoken text; in 2005 her own text Ich möchte lachen vor Todesschmerz on Robert Schumann’s last journey appeared. There followed Urs Faes’s Als hätte die Stille Türen (2006), Martin Baltscheit’s Vom Mädchen das nicht schlafen wollte (2006), nominated for the Deutscher Hörbuchpreis in 2007, and Arnold Schönberg: Die Prinzessin (2008), awarded the ECHO Klassik 2009 and the LEOPOLD media prize.